Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Production Diary 10th December
On the 9th of December and tomorrow on the 11th of December I will be acting in Reagan, Bobby's and Denzil's film. I will be playing a character who is being followed by the paranormal and doesn't feel comfortable about being at the venue in the first place, my character is always suggesting that we should leave the place and go home because the place doesn't feel right. From acting in the other groups film I have learnt that in my film I have to keep calm when acting and staying in role could make the difference between a good film and a bad film. If I laugh/laughed when I am the character that is panicking the whole time I have learnt that it makes the film look poor. I have also picked up from acting that the person who is filming has a vital role. The movement in the camera and the zooming and panning can aid massively in making a horror film scary. I had a few tester goes on the camera with zooming at window's that were smashed from a distant to make things look scary and this helped to make their film scary in the build up.
Screening, what will it show?
In our film opening the scenes will be very dark, also there will be flashbacks and imaginations of what could happen. The character will be scared as they do not like being home alone. To make the horror opening scarier there will be a part where the character imagines what is going to happen as they fall into a short sleep, as they wake up they will go on their phone and send a snap chat back. When the phone goes down a face will appear. The idea of flashbacks in the editing process makes it scarier because it makes the audience feel scared of what's happening in the flashback but also leaving them on edge of what could happen when the character wakes up. http://www.hark.com/clips/pwqhzksgdc-scaryflashbacksting-tfx2057 A good sound for a flashback is key, it has to be quite loud and build up tension fast as they shouldn't last long.
Monday, 9 December 2013
Shooting schedule
Shooting Schedule
Date
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Shooting
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Duration
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7th of December
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Photo shoot
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60mins
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16th of December
4:30pm-5:05pm
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Filming outside down the quiet road (in darkness)
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35mins
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16th of December
5:05pm-5:30pm
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Break
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30mins
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16th of December
5:35pm-6:30pm
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Shooting Tommy's lounge scenes
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55mins
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Friday, 6 December 2013
Title for 'The third from last'
Third From Last
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The Third From Last
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The Third From Last
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The Third From Last
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The Third From Last
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Thursday, 28 November 2013
The costume for main character
The costume our main character in our film will be wearing will be every day clothes as he is just coming home from a day out. It will be jeans a jumper and trainers it will look something along the lines of this.
Wednesday, 27 November 2013
Costume research and planning for film opening
In our film opening the costumes we are going to want to use will vary across the two different main characters. Ben the victim will be wearing normal clothes as he has just come home in every day life, he is simply returning home. He will be wearing jeans and trainers and a jumper/coat and just a jumper when he gets indoors. The murderer however will be dressed in dark clothing to aid the horror genre, the lighting in the room will be dark and we want the murderer/demon to be only seen vaguely. He is going to also be wearing a mask to aid to the scariness, possibly a mask looking like an old person from a hospital institute or a mental patient looking mask to add to the scariness of the opening. I found a couple of examples of masks that we as a group discussed to be scarier than most others and ones that would look scary and not unrealistic in the film.
Risk Assesment for film opening
Risk Assessment: Tommy's House
Activity Assessed: AS Media Task Filming
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Hazard:
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How we can avoid people getting hurt.
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Drop Equipment.
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Handle it all with care.
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Lights will be off.
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Be careful with movement.
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Walking down the dark road.
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Be careful of cars around.
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Using a real knife.
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Make sure it is a good distance away from the actor.
Handle it with care.
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Using electrics, For example: TV.
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Make sure we are careful when we are around them. No drinks near the TV.
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Slippery floor.
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Make sure we don't fall over when filming, setting up the equipment and carrying the equipment.
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Family Members.
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Could damage equipment.
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Setting for ' The third from last '
The venue and setting of our film is going to be Tommy Clark's house, there are many reasons behind this. Firstly the house has a brick walled room in it so it allows us to use the advantage of having a brick walled room's darkness to help the film fit the horror genre. The darkness of this room is key because we want to use a dark room to enhance the feel of suspense and tension, Tommy's room has a twist switch light so we can adjust the levels of light in the room. We wouldn't want to use a modern room as we feel it would make the film seem too modern and then unrealistic and not scary. Another reason we used this house is because the road that Tommy's house is down is very dark. This aids us also because it creates an uncomfortable opening to our film opening as you don't know what's going to happen down that road, something could jump out at any time but at the same time it might not. We were going to use an old mental asylum for our venue but we decided that the permission to film there would probably cost us and also we would have a lot more risk's to bare in mind rather than if we simply filmed at someone's house. Brentwood county high school was also an option but we feel that it wouldn't really fit the horror genre as the scenery wasn't good enough and the lighting wouldn't of fitted the horror genre either as it is too bright. We had the option of filming in the school in darkness but again there would have to be permission for us to do so and a lot of health and safety hazards to take into account. Tommy has a good camera that we can use at his house and also he has a lot of horror masks, this aids our film because we needed mask's for our opening scene so using Tommy's house gives us a range of mask's to choose from.
Script for ' The third from last '
Script for ‘Third from last’
Producer: Tommy Clark
Camera and editing manager: Jack Suters
Actors: Ben Sparrow, Jack Suters, Tommy Clark
Title of our film appears in bold, then in top and
bottom corners names of who directed the film, the actors and that it is based
on a true story. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNMeZldV-Rs
Ben is walking up a dark road on his way home; he then comes
to a big dark house. The lighting at this point is very dark and dim, then
music goes very slow and spooky to create tension. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCXUOZ-RLUw
The house looks dark with no lights on inside and Ben opens
the door slowly as it creaks loudly (creaking voiceover). He is welcomed by
pure silence in the house and goes into the lounge and puts on the tele. Over the
shoulder shot of Ben looking into the lounge. Point of view shot of Ben taking
his phone out of his pocket and ringing Jack as Ben hates being home alone.
Ben: Alright Jack what’s going on?
Jack: Mate I’m busy can you snap chat me please?
Ben: Ah, I hate being in home alone but yeah fair enough if
you busy. Talk later mate.
Jack: Okay mate, Sweet. You sure you’re okay yeah you’ve been
acting strange later.
Ben: Yeah yeah im fine, cheers anyway.
Ben puts the phone down and starts playing candy crush. The music
behind goes slow.
He receives a snap chat from jack and reads it quickly and
laughs to himself, TV is loud in the background, Ben then replies to jack using
his switch camera.
Jack then texts Ben
Jack: What the hell is that behind you Ben I thought you said
you were home alone.
Ben: Nothing you muppit stop trying to make a crap myself.
Ben looks behind him with tension music building up and
nothing is there.
He then replies again saying "there’s nothing behind me, your
such a wind up".
Ben puts the phone down and a man with a knife appears in
front of him.
A blank screen comes up and then the music from the first
titles comes up again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNMeZldV-Rs
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
Reception Theory
Reception Theory - Stuart Hall 1980
- The reception theory states that media texts are encoded by the producer - they are loaded with value and messages.
- The text is then decoded by spectators. Different spectators will decode the texts in their own unique way. This may not be in the way that the producer intended for it to be decoded.
The theory suggests that:
- When a producer makes a text it is encoded with a meaning behind it or a message that the producer wishes to show to the audience.
- In some cases the audience will decode the texts theirselves
- In some instances the audience will fail to understand the message or they will reject it.
Stuart Hall found 3 different types of audience readings to the text:
- Dominant: how the producer wants the audience to see the text. For example watching a political speech and agreeing with it.
- Negotiated: A compromise between the dominant and oppositional readings, where the audience accepts parts of the producers views but also takes their own views on it as well. For example neither aggreeing or disagreeing with the political speech or being disinterested.
- Oppositional: When the audience rejects the preffered reading, they will then create their own meaning for the text. For example total disagreement and rejection
What could affect us taking the: Dominant, Negotiated, Oppositional readings.
- Life experience
- Mood at the time of viewing
- Age
- Culture
- Beliefs
- Gender
Homework
The audience may chose to take a dominant view to a text, the reason for this is that the message has not been conveyed to them properly. This means they will enjoy the text more because they are able to understand what his happening and keep up with the film. Another reason may be because the video may relate to the ages of the audience. This means they can relate to what his happening more because they be going or are going through what is happening. Another reason may also be because the audience like the particular genre of the film or video.
The audience may take a oppositional view because the themes of the film this may be because the audience disagree with the messages in the video. Another reason may be because the audience do not like the genre of the video. Also the audience may be a different age to the characters in the video therefore cannot connect with the video and enjoy it as much.
The audience may take a negotiated view because they may like the genre, be the same age of the characters, however the story and messages of the video are to complex for them to understand and follow, which will lead to the audience having this view.
- The reception theory states that media texts are encoded by the producer - they are loaded with value and messages.
- The text is then decoded by spectators. Different spectators will decode the texts in their own unique way. This may not be in the way that the producer intended for it to be decoded.
The theory suggests that:
- When a producer makes a text it is encoded with a meaning behind it or a message that the producer wishes to show to the audience.
- In some cases the audience will decode the texts theirselves
- In some instances the audience will fail to understand the message or they will reject it.
Stuart Hall found 3 different types of audience readings to the text:
- Dominant: how the producer wants the audience to see the text. For example watching a political speech and agreeing with it.
- Negotiated: A compromise between the dominant and oppositional readings, where the audience accepts parts of the producers views but also takes their own views on it as well. For example neither aggreeing or disagreeing with the political speech or being disinterested.
- Oppositional: When the audience rejects the preffered reading, they will then create their own meaning for the text. For example total disagreement and rejection
What could affect us taking the: Dominant, Negotiated, Oppositional readings.
- Life experience
- Mood at the time of viewing
- Age
- Culture
- Beliefs
- Gender
Homework
The audience may chose to take a dominant view to a text, the reason for this is that the message has not been conveyed to them properly. This means they will enjoy the text more because they are able to understand what his happening and keep up with the film. Another reason may be because the video may relate to the ages of the audience. This means they can relate to what his happening more because they be going or are going through what is happening. Another reason may also be because the audience like the particular genre of the film or video.
The audience may take a oppositional view because the themes of the film this may be because the audience disagree with the messages in the video. Another reason may be because the audience do not like the genre of the video. Also the audience may be a different age to the characters in the video therefore cannot connect with the video and enjoy it as much.
The audience may take a negotiated view because they may like the genre, be the same age of the characters, however the story and messages of the video are to complex for them to understand and follow, which will lead to the audience having this view.
Wednesday, 9 October 2013
180 degree rule- is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene.
Shot reverse shot- is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character.
Male Gaze Theory
What's the male gaze?
The 'gaze' is how the audience looks at and see's certain people in that scenario.
For Women the male gaze can be looked at in 3 different ways:
- How men look at the women.
- How the women look and see themselves.
- How women see and portray other women.
The features of the male gaze:
The camera lingers on the figure of the female body, and the event which may occur to the women are presented in the context of the mans.
The male gaze tends to relegate the women to the status of objects. A female viewer must see the narrative in a different way, by identification with the male.
Criticism of Mulvey and Gaze theory:
A criticism is that women like to be looked at E.G: Beauty Pageants.
The gaze can also be directed at people of the same gender, not all of which are sexual, some may be because of the clothes someone is wearing or through body image.
The gaze can also be directed at people of the same gender, not all of which are sexual, some may be because of the clothes someone is wearing or through body image.
Categorizing facial expressions
Women
- chocolate box
- invitational
-super smiler
- romantic or sexual
Majorie Ferguson (1980)
Men
- carefree
- practical
- seductive
Trevor Millum (1975)
Key Theorists Believe:
Johnathon Schroeder (1998) - "To gaze implies more than a look - it signifies psychological relationship of power in which the gaze is superior to the object of the gaze.''
Women
- chocolate box
- invitational
-super smiler
- romantic or sexual
Majorie Ferguson (1980)
Men
- carefree
- practical
- seductive
Trevor Millum (1975)
Key Theorists Believe:
Johnathon Schroeder (1998) - "To gaze implies more than a look - it signifies psychological relationship of power in which the gaze is superior to the object of the gaze.''
Homework
As an audience we found it hard to answer the questions because we found ourselves distracted by the woman. Most of the camera shots we advertising her body parts which made it very hard to concentrate on the questions that we were supposed to answer. Most of the time the in the video its was focusing on the man but even still it was hard because when it went on to the girl it was enhancing how beautiful she is and it makes it very hard not to get distracted by that as we were still interested in the lady.
Friday, 4 October 2013
Thursday, 3 October 2013
Camera shots and angles
Camera work Pan: Following character of object. High Angle: Looking down on character or object Shows Authority. Low Angle: Looking up at person or object Emphasizes importance. Birds eye view: View above the scene Gets grasp how big scene is. Point of view: View of what the character is seeing. Over the shoulder: over a persons shoulder to view another character or object. (interviews or conversations). Canted Angle: Used to show distorted mind/drunk. Tracking: Tracks characters movements
Andrew Tudor ( Genre Theory, 1974 ) and Science fiction genre conventions
Chicken and Egg' Dilemma Commonly recognised formal elements and common features of a specific genre need to be identified.
Genre conventions: SCI-FI:
Colors: Silver because many things such as moon boots and helmets are silver, Shades of blue to represent out of space and milky ways etc, neon colors for stars and planets and bright things you'd find in space, bright flash colors again for stars shooting stars etc.
Costumes: Puffy clothing as out of space you'd imagine to be cold as there would be nothing to heat it unless your near the sun and you'd need puffy clothing for protection, big white space suits, moon boots, uniforms for on board spaceships like star trek you find they are all wearing uniform.
Sounds: The sounds that you would find would be quite loud and explosive such as meteors and comets smashing into one another. The roars of shooting stars flying about. Other spaceships in outer space could be inflicting damage on other ships resulting in loud crashing sounds. In a SCI-FI film you would hear the noises and blasts of fire coming out of the back of spaceships as the soar through out of space.
Lighting: The lighting in the scene would be quite bright as it is outer space, you would have stars and galaxies dotted around all over the place and it would light up everywhere. Planets would be bright and flashes of green and blue all over the dark blue sky would make everything seem bright.
Props: The props you would get in a science fiction film would be very weird, you could have weapons for if its a fighting film like in star wars and star trek they would use lasers and guns as weapons. You would also have a lot of equipment for when astronauts are flying around space such as cords to keep them attached to the spacecraft. You would also have props like steering for the spacecraft and buttons to control what it is doing.
Genre conventions: SCI-FI:
Colors: Silver because many things such as moon boots and helmets are silver, Shades of blue to represent out of space and milky ways etc, neon colors for stars and planets and bright things you'd find in space, bright flash colors again for stars shooting stars etc.
Costumes: Puffy clothing as out of space you'd imagine to be cold as there would be nothing to heat it unless your near the sun and you'd need puffy clothing for protection, big white space suits, moon boots, uniforms for on board spaceships like star trek you find they are all wearing uniform.
Sounds: The sounds that you would find would be quite loud and explosive such as meteors and comets smashing into one another. The roars of shooting stars flying about. Other spaceships in outer space could be inflicting damage on other ships resulting in loud crashing sounds. In a SCI-FI film you would hear the noises and blasts of fire coming out of the back of spaceships as the soar through out of space.
Lighting: The lighting in the scene would be quite bright as it is outer space, you would have stars and galaxies dotted around all over the place and it would light up everywhere. Planets would be bright and flashes of green and blue all over the dark blue sky would make everything seem bright.
Props: The props you would get in a science fiction film would be very weird, you could have weapons for if its a fighting film like in star wars and star trek they would use lasers and guns as weapons. You would also have a lot of equipment for when astronauts are flying around space such as cords to keep them attached to the spacecraft. You would also have props like steering for the spacecraft and buttons to control what it is doing.
Still Image lesson
The shining still image analysis - close up shot on scary mans face. The genre is horror, this is shown in the picture as his facial expression shows a sort of crazy twisted. His head is sweaty as his hair is sticking to his face gives him that sweaty damp look. The wide big smile gives us the sort of crazy anger look. The setting is a broken door which also adds to the horror genre as he is poking his head through the hole in the door that he could of potentially made.
Tuesday, 24 September 2013
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